A powerful, dark and diffusive aromatic chemical with a bitter, almost medicinal quinoline character wrapped around a leathery, animalic core. Reminiscent of tar, old books and dry tobacco, with a phenolic bite that softens over time into a smoky, suede-like undertone.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1226.
Colorless hygroscopic, plate-like crystals.
Slightly soluble in water, miscible with alcohol and oils.
Heavy-sweet, balsamic-herbaceous odor with some resemblance to Benzaldehyde and Anethole.
The taste in concentrations below 5 ppm is sweet, herbaceous-balsamic and warm, very slightly floral, and pleasantly animal-like.
The title material is occasionally used in perfume compositions as a trace ingredient in artificial flower absolutes, certain heavy-floral, balsamic or Oriental-animal bases, musk compositions, etc.
It is also used in flavor compositions, although almost exclusively in imitation Vanilla flavor. The concentration used is equivalent to about 0.2 to 1 ppm in the finished product.
1) by isolation from coal tar. It represents 1% of the total Quinoline fraction. 2) by extraction from Petroleum distillates.